photostoryproject - Kalie&Brynn17.1

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VOICE OVER

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Some Background Knowledge. The frontier was home to Native Americans,

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Mexican Settlers,

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and Pioneers.

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The Western frontier stretched from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
and Finally, Pioneers greatly underestimated the Western Frontier ( Purple, Orange, and Green land represent the frontier)

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and Great Plains

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Boom and Bust

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1st sub-topic, The comstock lode

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In 1859, two Irish Prospectors found gold in sierra, Nevada.

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Henry Comstock claimed the land for his own.

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The land became known as the Comstock Lode

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Next is Boomtown life

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Nearly half of the miners were foreign. They tended to be

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German

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Italian

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French, and

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Chinese

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Women who joned the mining revolution earned a good living

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Merchants also bough mull teams,

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tools,

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food

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and clothing

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Our third sub-topic is The boom Spreads.

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After the Civil War, prospectos spread throughout the west and found valuable ore, but few got rich

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Comstock gave up his mining rights for 11,000 dollars.

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next sub-topic is frontier Justice.

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miners formed groupes of vigilances.

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mining spread so fast law and order was hard to find.

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Now you will see what lead to this boom and bust. The Railroad Boom.

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The first sub-topic of The Railroad Boom is Aid to Railroads.

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Before 1860, the railroads ended at the Mississippi river.

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he railroads then gained more than 80 million acres. The railroad makers also received many subsidies.

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The next sub-topic is Spanning the Continent.

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In 1862, Leland Stanford started to fulfill his dream of creating a trans-continental railroad. He later won the right to build a track

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The railroad was called the central pacific. When another railroad, the union pacific met with Stanford's the two railroads would stretch from coast to coast.

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The railroad require thousands of workers. They included native born whites, Mexican Americans, and African Americans.

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Workers also immigrated from Mexico and Ireland

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The work was hazardous and low pay. Cutting through Sierra Nevada, Chinese manual laborers were slashed by wind and snow. Avalanches buried weeks of work and killed workers by the score.

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Finally, on may 10th 1869 the two lines met in Promontory, Utah.

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Stanford drove the final spike into the last rail with a silver mallet.

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Our last Sub-topic is Effects of the Railroads.

Many new towns sprang up in the West

Rapid population growth brought political changes.

People and supplies poured in as gold and silver left.